高一英语上学期期中试题25.doc

2016-2017学年高一上学期期中考试英语试卷
考生注意：
1．本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，共150分。考试时间120 分钟。
2．请将各题答案填在答题卡上。

第I卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节 (共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. How many children does Mrs Brown have?
A. Two. B. Three. C. Five.
2. What will the woman do tomorrow evening?
A. Have coffee with the man. B. Work. C. Stay at home.
3. What does the woman mean?
A. The man can smoke here.
B. She will think about it.
C. The man cannot smoke here.
4. Why doesn't the boy eat his cake?
A．He doesn't like it． B．He has a toothache． C．He is full．
5. What does the woman mean?
A. The person speaking Japanese isn't here.
B. Everyone except Jim can speak Japanese.
C. She can help the man to do with it.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1．5分，满分22．5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What does the woman think of the man?
A. He is fat. B. He is thin. C. He is foolish.
7. What does the woman suggest in the end?
A. Eating less food. B. Not giving up watching TV.
C. Enjoying music while taking a walk.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Whose birthday is it today?
A.Jim's. B. Tony's. C. Betty's.
9. How many happy things have happened to the man?
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.
听第 8段材料, 回答第 10至 12题。
10. What's possible relationship between the two speakers?
A. A tourist and an office worker. B. A student and his teacher. C. Friends.
11. How long will the man stay in Beijing for travel?
A. One week. B. Just this weekend. C. Two weekends.
12. What place will the man visit?
A. The Forbidden City. B. The Summer Palace. C. The Great Wall.
听第9段材料，回答第13至 16题。
13. What's the relationship between the woman and the man?
A. A mother and her son. B. A teacher and her student. C. A girl and her boyfriend.
14. Why is the man calling the woman?
A. He wants to talk with her.
B. He wants to come back and see her.
C. He wants to borrow some money.
15. Why did the man need the money last time?
A. Because he wanted to buy a car.
B. Because he wanted to buy a house.
C. Because he wanted to buy a computer.
16. What does the woman think of the man?
A. He doesn't plan his money carefully.
B. He knows how to spend his money cleverly.
C. He knows how to borrow money successfully.
听第 10段材料, 回答第 17至 20题。
17. What did Mrs Brown want to buy?
A. A sweater. B. A pair of shoes. C. A coat.
18. Why didn't Mrs Brown buy it at once?
A. She was busy. B. She didn't like the color. C. She didn't have enough money.
19. Why didn't her husband want her to buy it?
A. It was too expensive. B. It was not good enough. C. She had so many sweaters.
20. When did her husband agree to buy it?
A. The next day. B. After a week. C. The third day.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Everybody in this world is different from one another. But do you know that understanding differences can help you better manage your money?
As we grow up, we gradually develop a set of our own values or beliefs. These are influenced by society, our family, the education we receive and so on. Once this value system is set up, it's not easy to change later in life.
Financial experts say that everyone also has their own belief of how to manage their finances. This is part of our value system and it has a great impact on the way we look after our money.
According to our different values, experts put us in three categories. They are: the ant, the cricket and the snail.
The ant-works first
Just like ants who work heart and soul in summer in order to store food for winter, these people don't care about enjoying the moment. They work very hard and save money they earn so that they can enjoy life when they get old and retire. The ant loves to save but they could make more out of their money if they were willing to invest in some funds and stocks with low risk.
The cricket-fun first
The cricket wants to enjoy everything now and doesn't think too much about the future. They even borrow money when they really want something. Many young people now belong to this group. These people have little savings. When they get old, they might have problems. They should learn to save and buy insurance.
The snail-lives under pressure
The snail refers to people who make life difficult for themselves. They take big long-term loans from the bank in order to buy things such as luxury houses. They are happy to take big loans even though they are not sure whether they can afford it. This can cause problems in the future. They should plan more carefully.
21. People with the character of the snail would like to  .
A. enjoy life at the moment without thinking much about the future
B. put work before everything else
C. live a luxury life at all costs
D. take the risk of investing a large sum of money
22. Our beliefs and values are affected by the following except  .
A. society B. our family C. education D. money
23. This passage mainly talks about  .
A. the relation between man and insects
B. the spending nature of people
C. the insects in nature
D. the problems with dealing with money
B
America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don't feel hurt. If the same two people meet again, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand. Friendships between us develop more slowly but may become lifelong feelings, extending(延伸) deeply into both families.
There is another difficult point for us to understand. Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don't show their politeness to them if it requires a great deal of time. But in China, we are usually generous with our time. We, as hosts, will appear at an airport even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take day off from our work to act as guides to our friends: It is opposite in America, Americans can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotels. And they expect the visitors will phone them from there. Once the visitors arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real.
For Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants, except for business matters. Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. So accept their hospitality(好客) at home and enjoy your visit in America!
24. The underlined phrase "pick up"in Paragraph 1 may mean "  ".
A. keep out B. give up
C. pay no attention to D. continue
25. Which of the following is the typical (典型的) way of American hospitality?
A. Treating friends at home.
B. Taking days off to be with friends.
C. Meeting friends at the airport at midnight.
D. Sharing everything they have.
26. Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?
A. Americans are always generous with their time.
B. Americans don't feel hurt if their friendships disappear soon.
C. Chinese friendships develop more slowly but will never disappear.
D. Chinese friendships are more sincere than American friendships.
27. This passage is most probably written for  .
A. American students. B. Chinese students.
C. Chinese visitors to America. D. American visitors to China.
C
Parents are a child’s first teachers. But some parents never learned from good examples. In New York City, a nonprofit agency（非盈利机构） called Covenant House tries to help homeless young mothers become good parents.
The twelve or so teenagers who live at the shelter attend parenting classes four days a week. The class is called Mommy and Me. Teacher Delores Clemens is a mother of five and a grandmother. She teaches basic skills, like how to give a baby a bath and how to dress a baby depending on the season.
She remembers one student who learned from her mother not to pick up a crying baby. The mother said that would only make the child needy and overly demanding（要求高的）. Delores Clemens says, “That's not true. You have to hold your baby! He is crying for a reason. If you never pick him up, he's going to keep crying. Pick your baby up. Cuddle（拥抱）your baby. Hug him! And she started to do that. They just want a little cuddling and a little love. And it works!”
Delores Clemens says her students also learn how to be good mothers by letting themselves be mothered. Around three hundred fifty teenage mothers graduate from Covenant House's Mommy and Me class every year.
In class on this day, with her baby son, is Natasha. She lived on the streets. She is glad not only for the warmth and shelter of Covenant House. As she told reporter Adam Phillips, she is also glad for the help they offer in seeking(寻求) a safer life.
The World Health Organization says the United States has forty-one births for every one thousand girls aged fifteen to nineteen. That is higher than other developed countries, as well as some developing ones. By comparison, northern neighbor Canada has fourteen births and southern neighbor Mexico has eighty-two.
28. Covenant Houses’ Mommy and Me class is intended to _____.
A. help homeless young mothers become good parents
B. provide homeless young mothers with a warm shelter
C. help mothers in New York be good parents
D. teach some parents how to love their children
29. What can we infer（推断）about Delores Clemens from the text?
A. She is a mother of five and a grandmother.
B. She thinks a crying baby should be picked up and hugged.
C. She teaches advanced skills on how to be good mothers.
D. She is very glad for the warmth and shelter of Covenant House.
30. According to the World Health Organization, which country has the highest births for girls aged fifteen to nineteen?
A. Canada B. the United States of America C. Mexico D. Britain
31. What is the text mainly about?
A. Parents who are a child’s first teachers.
B. A class where teens learn mothering and are mothered.
C. A nonprofit agency that offers a safer life.
D. A kind teacher who help homeless young mothers.
D
Air pollution, such as smog, has become a serious problem around the world. Besides wearing a mask, what else can we do to protect ourselves from the dirty air?
Scientists have developed a new inhaler (吸入剂) that can reduce the effect air pollution has on people. It could help millions of people who are suffering from air pollution, the Guardian reports.
This inhaler is developed by German company Bitop and contains a molecule (分子) named Ectoine. The molecule creates a layer (涂层) that protects lungs from polluted air. It’s reported that the inhaler will be affordable to most people when it comes to the market.
Air pollution kills more than three million people a year worldwide and leads to health problems like lung and heart disease and strokes, according to a 2015 research project in the journal Nature. It is also linked to brain disease, mental illness and diabetes (糖尿病).
Andreas Bilstein at Bitop believed that the inhaler could be useful around the world, because air pollution is not just a European problem: “Especially in Asia － China in particular － the demand for such a product is even higher.”
Many Chinese cities have been suffering from smog. According to World Health Organization, two of the 10 most polluted cities in the world in 2014 were in China. About 800,000 deaths that are linked to air pollution take place in the country every year.
However, such inhalers should never be an excuse for not trying to stop air pollution, said Professor Jean Krutmann at the Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine. “The best thing is that we have clean air and we don’t need any prophylactic (预防性的) treatment,” he said.
32. What is the new inhaler?
A. It can help protect the environment.
B. It can make the dirty air clean.
C. It can solve the air pollution problem.
D. It can help us reduce the harm of air pollution.
33. From the third paragraph, we learn that ______.
A. the inhaler comes from a US company
B. the inhaler is named Ectoine
C. a molecule in the inhaler forms a layer on lungs
D. the inhaler’s price will be too high for most people
34. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Air pollution kills millions of people a year worldwide.
B. Air pollution can cause mental illness.
C. There are no air pollution problems in Europe.
D. Air pollution is a serious problem in China.
35. Which is Professor Jean Krutmann’s opinion?
A. Such inhalers don’t mean much to people.
B. We should take action to control air pollution.
C. We can depend on inhalers to solve air pollution problems.
D. We’d better produce more medicines to treat lung diseases.
第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。(E=AB F=AC G=AD)
How to Eat Slowly to Avoid Overeating
Eating slowly can help you to better understand your real hunger signals and can help you to recognize reasons for faster eating, such as emotions or simply liking the taste of a food. However, eating slowly is not a decision that you make suddenly. 36
● Adjust your mind. Do not even attempt to acquire the habit of eating slowly before you’re mentally ready. Relax and use your imagination to create mental images that your brain will remember. As part of this mental process, imagine yourself lean and fit.
● 37 Eating slowly isn’t just about slowing down the chewing; it’s also about slowing down your food choices. As you pick out the processed food, replace it with healthy, unprocessed or less processed choices.
●Always relax before you start eating. Take a few deep breaths through the nose and not through the mouth. As you do so, hold your breath briefly and exhale (呼气) slowly by the mouth. 38 In this way, you start to remove any risk of uncomfortable eating.
●Drink a glass of water or eat a small bowl of soup before your main dish. This will give you a sense of fullness. Be aware that not everyone advocates drinking during a meal, as some people believe that this can remove the nutrients from your meal. 39
● Spend at least 20 minutes on your meal. 40 Eat your last portion really slowly. If you are still hungry after 20 minutes, it means you are eat